Please consider participating, and passing the invitation below on to you colleagues:
Opportunity to contribute to research on school bullying!
You are invited to participate in a research project to learn more about strategies used by teachers and counselors when faced with bullying incidents. This study is being conducted by Dr. Sheri Bauman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Arizona. If you are interested in contributing 10-15 minutes of your time to advance our understanding of this important international problem, please click on the link below. You will be asked for a password to ensure that only teachers and school counselors complete the survey. Please enter “ijime” (do not enter the quotation marks) when you are asked for your password.
This is an invitation to participate in a totally free event that will take place on September 11 and that will be, I believe, of special interest to teachers and librarians. As we are a public library in Illinois with absolutely no budget to give this event the publicity it deserves, we are hoping you will share the information with anyone you think might have an interest.
On September 11, 2006, the Bensenville Community Public Library District (a Chicago suburb) will present Marion Blumenthal Lazan live and in real time to anyone with an Internet connection. To participate, you merely install a small program (it loads in about 20 seconds), turn on your computer's speakers, then sit back and listen to Marion. If you also have a microphone attached to your computer, you will be able to speak with her and ask questions directly.
As a girl, Marion and her family were trapped in Hitler's Germany, and they spent six and a half years in refugee and concentration camps, including Westerbork in Holland and Bergen-Belsen in Germany. They were in a cattle car on their way to Auschwitz when they were finally liberated by Russian troops.
Now in her seventies, Marion is devoting the rest of her life to telling her story. She knows that in a few years there will be no Holocaust survivors left, yet what happened must never be forgotten. Her story does not dwell on the horror of what she experienced. Instead, her message is one of hope and optimism in the face of extraordinary hardship. She implores us to be kind to one another, to embrace diversity, to always retain hope, to respect one another, and to never look away from intolerance and cruelty. Could there be a more powerful or appropriate message on September 11?
Marion will speak to the children of the world on September 11, 2006, at 2:00 p.m., eastern time. She will speak for about 30 minutes, and she will then take questions. She will be speaking in an online auditorium, and there is no charge whatsoever to listen. Our hope is that thousands of children and their teachers will spend that hour on September 11 with Marion. She will tell a story of courage, hope, and the will to survive. Your students (and you) will be mesmerized and inspired.
For more information, including directions for registering for the program and logging onto the website where the online auditorium is located, please just reply to this message to: [email removed]].
If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to me, Bill Erbes, [email removed].
We believe there will be much interest in this event if only we can get the word out that it will be happening. Any help you can offer in spreading the message will be most appreciated.
Thank you.
Bill Erbes Assistant Library Director Bensenville Community Public Library District 200 S. Church Road Bensenville, IL 60106 (630) 766-4642
My dad saw where a teacher named Trevethan was given an award on/by a TV station. my mother's madein name is Trevethan and we were wounding if they might be related? just starting to do reasurch on her family name. Thank You Steve
Don't forget to register for the July 13-15th SMG~CAN Chicago conference while there is still space. Read about the wonderful benefits from past conference attendees and register at [link removed]!
by Susan/NY/5 View project requirements at link included
Jul 7, 2006
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I am looking for a classroom from your state to participate in a USA Postcard Exchange. If interested, view the link included to see the requirements. I would love to have your state represented. Hope you join!
We need a teacher from Delaware to join our postcard exchange. If you are interested, please email me. I need your school address and an email. I'll email you the list as soon as it is complete. Thanks, Monica
We are a different postcard exchange than the one posted below. We are a Kindergarten/first grade postcard exchange. We also need Iowa! First one to email me gets it! :) [email removed]
by USA Postcard Exchange-I've provided a link to project home page Please join!
Aug 1, 2006
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I am looking for a classroom from your state to participate in a USA Postcard Exchange, which is an easy to integrate project involving minimal class time. If interested, view the link included to see the requirements. I would love to have your state represented. Hope you join!
I am in need of an IA teacher to join my 50 state postcard exchange. I only have a few states left. If you can help me out, please email me at [email removed]
Include the following:
Who you want the postcards addressed to (Mrs. Hollingsworth's Class) Your school name and address Your grade level(s)
Each teacher will be responsible for sending a postcard to each of the other states. Please include information about your state such as state symbols and interesting facts. In return, you will receive a postcard back from each of the states involved. Address labels will be provided to you if you want. Also, a list of names, addresses, and school websites will be e-mailed to you. I would like to send address labels by the MIDDLE of October. Deadline for mailing out postcards will be sometime in November.
If you are interested in participating in this exchange, please email me personally with the following info. our email addresses: daniellemitchell1yahoo.com or uspostcardexchange.com Please make the subject line of your email read "POSTCARD EXCHANGE/ (your state abbreviation)".
Information to include in your email: Name
Grade you teach
E-mail address
Name you would like on mailing label (Ms. Smith's Second Grade Class)